Space Station Jefferies

[Wingsley]

I see the Space Station Jefferies configuration as highly modular, and somewhat related to the same design philosophy of Federation starships.

Just as a Constitution-class starship employs a primary hull with a bridge module on top, a secondary hull and nacelles interconnected by fin-like pylons, so Jefferies features a highly sectionalized modular design. The large ring hull of the Jefferies appears to have 15 segments that form a rough circle that reminds me of the Pentagon building in Washington, D.C. I see this as a practical way to build such a large structure, a way to incorporate a diversity of organizational departments into the overall station, and also a way to protect the station's inhabitants in the event of system failures or hull breaches. The rings remind me a little bit of the saucers used in starships. It's a vaguely similar principle.

I like and respect the work being done in this thread, and the work Mr. Jefferies did in his original concept drawings. I would love to see a different station concept that would use common TOS hull shapes and variants in very different ways as well.

 

[MGagen]

I had a request for some larger Orthos of the station, and I noticed that, while Photobucket has resumed serving the images; in lieu of me paying them a monthly fee, they have sampled them down to a lower resolution. So here are the new reference Orthos, as well as the previous desktop wallpaper images, hosted full resolution on Imgur:

And now the Wallpapers:

ENJOY!

M.

 

[MGagen]

Personal use only. I'd rather this not show up in a large online collection...given the number of C&Ds that are flying about at present.

 

[TIN_MAN]

Any chance of ever seeing deck levels or loft lines added to this image?

 

[MGagen]

I cut out the starbase and used it in this wallpaper I made that I was going to post on my trek art website.
I credited you with the model.

As I mentioned, I'd rather not have this on your website. I do not want to call attention to it in the current litigious environment. I have no objection to you keeping it for personal use.

Any chance of ever seeing deck levels or loft lines added to this image?

Sorry, I doubt I'd have time to devote to that. You can get an idea of the decks from the windows. I scaled the station directly from MJ's sketch dimensions shown on page 1 of this thread.

M.

 

[MGagen]

This is a site with various pics scattered across countless threads. Yours is a collection site with a large number of images gathered in one place where people are encouraged to download. It shouldn't be too hard to understand why one might be more likely to gain unwanted attention from certain quarters than the other...

 

[MGagen]

I have no desire to discuss this further. You asked my permission to post it on your site. I responded and asked that you do not post it there. Whether you can comprehend my reasoning is neither here nor there.

 

[Maurice]

^^^No one needs a lecture from you, either. You asked, he answered, you complied but felt compelled to lecture him, and then you lectured him again when he said he didn't want to discuss it.

 

[Michael]

I have no desire to discuss this further.

I have no desire to discuss this further

That's cool, because this coincides with me having no desire at all to see you two discuss this any further. Particularly in this heated-up manner. So back to discussing the designs and renderings at hand. And that means everybody! *looks at @Maurice*

 

[Sgt_G]

Love the design, but I was hoping to find something like it with pods big enough to dock a whole ship inside. I want to use it in some fiction writings. I don't want to use the Franz Joseph starbase design.

In my mind's eye, I see something like your space statoin, only bigger, with three main rings, one of which has six pods for internal docking, while the other two have six or twelve docking ports for external docking. Part of the story plot involves moving a ship from a pod to a docking port. Yeah, sounds boring, but space is never that boring when things go wrong.

 

[publiusr]

Something of note:
There was a plan to launch a torus shaped station in one piece:
http://up-ship.com/blog/?p=40017

Looks familiar... https://www.deviantart.com/thefirstfleet/art/A-tribute-to-John-Eaves-510261202